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Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism’s favorite themes.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies – “the lives”.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Schizophrenia
In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Religious Terrorist
I don’t really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

I don’t really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Warrior
Bernard-Henri Levy
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Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!
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Political Radical Today
Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places – Darfur, Rwanda.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places – Darfur, Rwanda.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Each Funeralmpalestian Moving
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential “clash of civilizations.” I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential “clash of civilizations.” I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
I definitely don’t agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States – this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

I definitely don’t agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States – this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

United States
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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Today
I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States – even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States – even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Long
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty.
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Mean Neighborhood Political
I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.
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Cosmopolitanism
Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved – and I think and hope that one day soon it will be – this wouldn’t stop one person from becoming a terrorist.
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Hoe One Palestine Solved Terrorist
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history – we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
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France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Invisible
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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Rebellious Successful

Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism’s favorite themes.

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